Curriculum Map-Social Studies Grade 5

Curriculum Map-Social Studies Grade 5 CONCEPT SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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• Principles of Geography

• Introduction to MN History

• Introduction to US History

• Ancient Migrations & First People

in the Americas

• Native American Groups

• Current Events

• Apply geographical principles to

maps, projections and globes

• Understand MN history in relation

to concepts of ancient world history

• Explore ideas and theories of Early

Man

• Understand migration of people

from Africa to Mesopotamia and

north, west and east over thousands

of years

• Appreciate the rich variety of Native

American cultures and histories

• Textbook reading and discussion in

class

• Weekly Assignments

• In-Class review and practice with

maps/geography skills

• TCI Chapter 1 & 2 Reviews &

Quizzes

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• US History

• Native American Groups

• Regions of North America

• Northwest Coast, Cali. Inter-

Mountain, Southwest, Plateau, Great

Plains, Eastern Woodlands and

South East

• Native American Stories/Projects

• Current Events

• Explore unique Native American

Cultures, focusing on North

America

• Master the different geographical

regions in the US in relation to

Native American tribes and

population

• Focus on a specific Native American

tribe and its culture and practices


class


• American Indian Project

• Creative Writing Assignment on

Fictional American Indian story

• TCI Chapter 3 Review & Quiz

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• Native American Stories/Projects

• Presentations of Native American

Projects

• Age of Exploration

• European Technologies and Travel

Routes

• Columbus, Cabot, De Leon, Cortez,

Cook, Vespucci, Magellan, De

Gama

• Hudson, Cartier, and Northwest

Passage Explorers

• Current Events

• Focus on specific Native American

tribe and its culture and practices

• Investigate technological

advancements leading to European

exploration

• Identify major European explorers

from Spain, Portugal, England,

France and the Netherlands

• Comprehend the progression of

exploration and claiming lands for

European settlement and

exploitation of resources


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• American Indian Project

• Presentations of American Indian

Projects

• Explorers Graphic Organizer


Quizzes

Curriculum Map CONCEPT SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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• First Settlements in N. America

• Roanoke, Jamestown & Plymouth

• Colonists, Pilgrims and

Thanksgiving

• N.E., Middle and Southern Colonies

• Massachusetts Bay & Rhode Island

(N.E.)

• N.Y. & Pennsylvania (Middle)

• Maryland & Georgia (Southern)

• Geography, Government and Jobs in

N.E, Middle & Southern Colonies

• Current Events

• Understand significance of first 3

settlements in North America of

Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth

• Understand the history of colonial

development in three regions of

North America

• Explore differences in geography,

climate, economies and politics

between the Northeast, Middle and

Southern Colonies

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• Jamestown, Roanoke and Plymouth

Graphic Organizer

• Colonial Regions Notes/Organizer


Quizzes

• Chapter 6 Re-test

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• Slave Trade and US Colonies

• West Africa in the 1500s

• Slavery and Triangle Trade

• Middle Passage

• MN History

• Geography of MN

• Maps

• Natural Resources in MN

• MN Road Trip Project

• Current Events

• Understand the history of the slave

trade in West Africa, the Caribbean

and North America

• Appreciate the devastating effects of

slavery on the victims and their

culture and lives

• Comprehend the reliance on slaves

in the trade markets and the

economy of the Southern colonies in

the US

• Discover major cities, geographical

regions and waterways in MN

• Navigate MN on maps and through

creative travel plans


class


• Globe Trekker Documentary

discussion on Slavery

• Slavery Choices Organizer


• MN History Book Reading and

Discussion

• MN Road Trip Project &

Presentations, posters and videos

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• US History

• Colonial Williamsburg

• Life, Education, Jobs and Society in

Colonies

• Discontent in Colonies

• French & Indian War

• Explore life in a Colonial Town in

the 1700s

• Understand the basics of life in

colonial society

• Identify the major reasons for

colonial discontent with King

George and Great Britain


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• Colonial Williamsburg Video and

questions

• Conflict with Great Britain

Organizer

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• Proclamation of 1767

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Intolerable Acts

• Current Events

• Understand the specific events and

laws leading up to Revolution and

the Declaration of Independence

• Be able to debate or argue for the

reasons colonists were unhappy with

Great Britain


Quizzes


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• MN History

• 1800s in MN

• Geography of MN

• Terrains: Canadian Shield, Prairie,

Wetlands, Hardwood Forests

• US History

• Declaration of Independence

• Loyalists and Patriots (and Neutral)

• Revolution

• 2nd

Continental Congress

• Writing the Declaration

• Current Events

• Learn the progression of immigrants

coming in to MN and their settling

in different regions of the state

• Identify different geographical

regions in MN and how they

influence the economy and tourism

• Understand the specific events and

laws leading up to Revolution and

the Declaration of Independence

• Comprehend the progress of writers

of the Declaration of Independence

• Analyze the events that lead to the

Revolutionary War with Great

Britain


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• Loyalist vs. Patriot Debate


• Primary Source Analysis-

Declaration of Independence

• MN History Chapter 3 Readings

and discussion

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• Common Sense and Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• Revolution

• Continental Army & British Red

Coats

• Advantages and Disadvantages

• Mercenaries

• Course of War & Major Rev. War

Battles

• Treaty of Paris

• Current Events

• Identify key figures in the

Revolutionary War period and their

contributions and significance

• Analyze the key battles, turning

points and strategies that led to

victory for the Colonies

• Understand the advantages and

disadvantages for both the British

and Colonists

• Comprehend the importance and

role of other countries’ fighters,

forces and navies in the War

• Discover the events that lead to


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• 5 Excerpts of Declaration of

Independence Organizer

• Primary Source Analysis-

Declaration of Independence


Quizzes

eventual peace terms at the Treaty of

Paris

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• US Government after Revolutionary

War

• Articles of Confederation

• Weak Government

• Shays Rebellion

• Constitution

• Separation of Powers

• Legislative, Executive & Judicial

Branches

• Bill of Rights

• MN History

• Natural Wonders of MN

• Current Events

• Understand the needs of the new

nation after the Revolutionary War

• Analyze the Articles of

Confederation as colonists’ desire

for a government that does not

resemble monarchy

• Discover how the weak Articles lead

to ineffective governance and Shay’s

Rebellion

• Analyze the decisions and

development of the Constitution by

the Constitutional Convention

members

• Explore the 3 branch system of

government

• Understand the significance of the 2

house legislature as a compromise

that led to ratification of

Constitution

• Explore the natural wonders and

variety of ecosystems, water and

woods in MN


class


• Scenario on Separation of Powers

• Constitutional Convention

Activity/Skit

• Bill of Rights Debate


Quizzes

• End of Year Test/Assessment

• Curriculum Map-History 6/7th

Grade, Year A CONCEPT SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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• Principles of Geography

• Physical vs. Human Geography

• Maps, globes and projections

• Landforms

• Waterways

• Political Boundaries

• Regions of the World

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• Review basic geographical

principles

• Understand the difference and need

for the study of both physical and

human geography

• Explore features of maps, globes and

projections

• Understand distortion on maps

• Review different landforms,

waterways and boundaries on maps

• Identify general/major geographical

regions of the world

• Weekly Discovery Education

Engage, Explore and Elaborate

readings, discussions and activities

• Section Evaluate Review and

Assessment Questions (quizzes and

re-takes online)

• 6th

Grade Pre-Test

• Early Man Project

• TCI Geography Mapping

Activity/Assessment

• Fighting Crime with Maps

Questions

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• Archaeology

• Human Origins

• Hominins

• Human Migration

• Fertile Crescent

• Beringea

• Hunter-Gatherer

• Nomad

• Agrarian Civilization

• Mesopotamia

• Wolf Ridge ELC*

• Comprehend the basic science and

tools of archaeology

• Consider the theories of the earliest

humans, and migration from Africa

• Explore concepts of nomadic travel,

hunter-gatherer migration

• Understand the importance of

Mesopotamia as the first location of

permanent settlement of humans

• Comprehend theories of human

migration to the Americas over the

Bering land bridge more than 10,000

years BCE

• Analyze the important shift from

nomadic lifestyles to agrarian

settlements and consistent food

supplies






re-takes online)

• Earliest Humans D.E. Timeline

Inquiry

• First Migrations Timeline Map

Activity

• Wolf Ridge Experience!

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• Development of Languages

• Agricultural Settlement

• Neolithic Revolution

• Domestication of Animals

• Birth of Cities

• Analyze humans’ development of

linguistic abilities

• Analyze the important shift from

nomadic lifestyles to agrarian

settlements and consistent food






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• Specialization of Labor

• Development of Culture

• Current Events

supplies

• Explore further development of

domestication of livestock

• Understand Mesopotamia and the

fertile crescent as the birthplace of

the first cities

• Analyze the development of

specialized labor-jobs other than

farming

• Understand the progression of

culture in Mesopotamia

re-takes online)

• Unit 1 Review and Test D.E.

• Domesticating Animals Reading

Passage Questions

• Caveman Diet Reading Questions

• This is Culture Reading Questions


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• Societal Hierarchies

• Government/Leadership

• Art & Architecture

• Geography of Mesopotamia-Rivers!

• Cultural Exchange between cities

• Trade

• Controlling Floods

• Irrigation and Farming

• Religion in Ancient Culture

• Roles of Women in Mesopotamia

• Wars and Empires in Mesopotamia

• Assyrians, Babylonians & Greeks

• Explore social stratification that

occurred in the first civilizations and

city states of Mesopotamia

• Understand the principles of

governance, culture, art and

architecture that developed in

ancient Mesopotamia

• Analyze the key factor to consistent

agrarian success in the development

of flood control and irrigation

techniques

• Comprehend the role of religious

belief in ancient Mesopotamia

• Compare the different roles of

women in the ancient world

• Understand the shifting power

between city states through wars and

emerging empires






re-takes online)

• Brief Constructed Response on

Irrigation in Mesopotamia

• Primary Source Epic of Gilgamesh

reading questions

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• Written Language

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• Calendar and Wheel

• Code of Hammurabi

• MN History

• Understand the significance of the

first written languages developed in

Mesopotamia and the use of

cuneiform

• Explore other significant






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• Lakes, Rivers and Watersheds of

MN

• Reservations

• Native Americans in MN

• Europeans & Fur Trade

• Conflict bet. Natives and Europeans

• Progress toward Statehood

• Immigrants in MN

• Dred Scott & MN

• Railroads, Industry and Flour

accomplishments of Mesopotamian

culture

• Understand the major physical

geographical characteristics of MN

• Appreciate the major Native

American tribes in MN before

European influence

• Understand the significance of

European exploration in the shifting

inhabitation of MN

• Understand the reality of

displacement of Native Americans

• Explore the progression of jobs,

economy and industry in MN during

the 1800s

re-takes online)

• Development of the Wheel Reading

Questions

• Mesopotamia Unit Review and Test

• Reservations in MN

Activity/Organizer

• MN Mapping Organizer and mini-

project

• MN History Field Trip Writing

Assignment

• Mapping Assessment on MN

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• Egypt & Geography-Nile River!

• Economy & Trade in Egypt

• Luxury & Civilization

• Flooding and Irrigation

• Silt and Fertility in Nile Valley

• Levees and Dikes

• MN History

• 4 Regions of MN

• Invasive Species of MN

• Current Events

• Comprehend the importance of the

Nile River as the single most

significant geographical feature in

Egypt

• Explore the development of

civilization, trade, and economy in

Egypt

• Analyze the further developments of

irrigation techniques and flood

control by the Egyptians

• Explore the different geographical

regions of MN

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of

selected invasive species in MN and

their impact on the ecology,

economy and tourism






re-takes online)

• Geography of Egypt Map Guided

Inquiry

• Mississippi and Nile River Floods

Reading Questions

• Invasive Species in MN Project


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• Invasive Species of MN

• World Savvy Project

• Food & Water-Feeding 9 Billion

• World History-Egypt cont.

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of

selected invasive species in MN and

their impact on the ecology,

economy and tourism





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• Hieroglyphics

• Pyramids

• Cultural Exchange through Trade

• Current Events

• Apply concepts of Knowledge to

Action through the World Savvy

Classrooms program

• Explore the Egyptian development

of hieroglyphics

• Analyze other major contributions of

Egyptian society and culture

• Understand the major concept of

cultural exchange between

civilizations through trade and wars


re-takes online)

• Invasive Species in MN Project &

Presentations in Keynote

• World Savvy Project

• Akhenaten Reading Questions

• Extended Constructive Response

Questions on Egyptian Innovations

and Contributions

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• World Savvy Groups

• Ancient Greece

• Geography of Greece-Water &

Mountains!

• City-States

• Persian Empire and Persian Wars

• Political Systems in Ancient Greece

• Democracy-Direct Democracy vs

Representative

• Athens and Sparta

• Current Events

• Apply concepts of Knowledge to

Action through the World Savvy

Classrooms program

• Understand the difference of the

geography of Greece in comparison

to Mesopotamia and Egypt

• Explore the primacy of City-States

within ancient Greece

• Comprehend the significance of

Greek development of Democracy

and its similarities to modern forms

of government

• Understand the differences between

Sparta and Athens in relation to

government, culture and warfare






re-takes online)

• Egypt Unit Review and Test

• Geography of Ancient Greece Map

Guided Inquiry

• Democracy Then & Now Reading

Questions

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• Greek Philosophy

• Greek Culture as Founders of

Western Civilization

• Socratic Method

• Plato, Socrates and Aristotle

• Gods and goddesses

• Olympics

• Alexander the Great

• Ancient Rome

• Rome Geography-Location and

Roads!

• Explore the cultural and academic

significance of the ancient Greek

philosophers-Plato, Socrates and

Aristotle

• Analyze Greek religious beliefs in

polytheism and their lasting

influence on entertainment,

mythology and stories today

• Explore the ancient development of

the Olympics to the modern games

• Understand the conquests of

Alexander the Great in the






re-takes online)

• Ancient Greece Unit Review and

Test

• Rome’s Natural Sites Reading

Questions

• Roman Empire Timeline Inquiry

• End of year Post-Test

• Roman Political Structure

• Republic

• Plebians and Patriarchs

• Julius Caesar

• Eventual Fall of Rome

• MN History

• Economy and Resources in MN

• Current Events

expansion of the Greek Empire

• Analyze the development of Roman

civilization through the development

of roads and transportation routes

• Understand the difference between

Greek democracy and Roman forms

of republic government

• Explore the expansion of the Roman

Republic and its eventual shift to

Empire & its downfall

• Understand the major economic

forces in MN and their relation to

the natural resources in the state

Curriculum Map-History 6/7th

Grade, Year B CONCEPT SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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• Geography Overview

• Unites States and Canada’s

Geographical Regions

• Biomes in the US

• US History (Revolution-Civil War)

• Washington’s Presidency

• Presidential Precedents Established

by Washington

• Capitol to Potomac (Washington

D.C)

• Hamilton vs. Jefferson

• Federalists vs State’s Rights

• Current Events & Election

• Review basic geographical terms

and skills

• Identify major geographical regions

of North America

• Relate the significance and role of

the first president of the United

States, George Washington

• Understand the lasting effects of

Washington’s presidency

• Analyze the two emerging political

parties and viewpoints within US

politics at the outset of the new

governmental period






re-takes online)

• Brief Constructed Response on

Geographical Regions

• Capitol Idea Reading Passage and

Questions

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• National Debt and National Bank

• Policy of Neutrality

• XYZ Affair

• Alien & Sedition Acts

• Jefferson’s Election

• Age of Exploration of US Interior

• LA Purchase

• Lewis & Clark Expedition

• Barbary Wars

• War between England And France

• Explore challenges facing

Washington and other founding

fathers’ presidencies

• Discover the events and conditions

that led to continued tensions

between the United States and Great

Britain

• Understand the government’s

restrictions on individual rights and

liberties during times of national

security risks

• Identify the land areas purchased in

the 1803 LA Purchase and their

importance for the future

development of the US

• Explore the discoveries made by

Lewis & Clark in their voyage

across the interior of North America

• Understand the growing tensions

between England, US and France






re-takes online)

• Socratic Seminar on National

Security vs. Individual Rights

• Lewis & Clark Nat. Geo

Documentary Questions and

discussion

• Lewis and Clark Timeline Inquiry

• War of 1812

• Impressment of Sailors

• Discover the events and conditions

that led to continued tensions



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• Boundary Disputes w/England

• English & Native American Conflict

• Battles of War of 1812

• Burning of White House

• Francis Key Scott

• Era of Good Feelings

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Foreign Affairs & Monroe Doctrine

• Current Events & Election!

between the United States and Great

Britain

• Identify the key figures and events

that lead to a new war with Great

Britain and many Native American

tribes

• Analyze the major battles and key

turning points in the War of 1812

• Understand the effects of the War of

1812, and the period of relative

peace and isolation that followed

• Explore the policies of the Monroe

Doctrine that emerged in the

aftermath of the War of 1812

• Understand changes to the

presidency that Andrew Jackson

brought and his strong approach to

politics




re-takes online)

• Election Assembly Activity

• War of 1812 Historical

Perspectives Activity

• Unit 6 Review Kickball Game

• Unit 6 Test


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• First Westward Expansion

• Northwest Ordinance

• National Transportation

• National Road & American System

• Native American Experience of

Expansion/Relocation

• Indian Removal Act

• Assimilation

• Illegal Treaties

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Continental Coast to Coast

Expansion

• Gadsden Purchase

• Current Events

• Explore the steps that pioneers took

in moving westward in the mid

1800s

• Understand the significance of the

Northwest Ordinance during the

Articles of Confederation time

period in establishing a system for

land surveying and homesteading

• Appreciate the difficult reality of

displacement of Native Americans

during this new wave of European

expansion

• Analyze the effects of policies of

assimilation, forced relocation and

reservations for Native Americans

• Understand the significant push by






re-takes online)

• Native American Removal Act

Timeline Inquiry

• Along the Trail of Tears Reading

Passages & Questions Discussion

• Westward Expansion Timeline Map

Investigation

European settlers by 1850 to take

over and inhabit lands from the

Atlantic to the Pacific coast in a

short period of time

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• Mexican American War

• California Gold Rush

• Land Grants

• Boom Towns

• Industrial Revolution

• England and Industry

• Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin

• Communication Advances-

Telegraph

• Reaper and Steel Plow

• Current Events

• Explore the policies and actions by

the US to control all lands from

coast to coast in the spirit of

Manifest Destiny

• Understand the significant role of

the discovery of gold in California in

bringing large waves of new

inhabitants to the west

• Analyze the effects that the

Industrial Revolution had in the

development of the United States in

the 1800s

• Comprehend the variety of

technological advances during this

time period and their impact on jobs,

communication and growth of cities






re-takes online)

• Unit 7 Review and Test

• Industrial Revolution Classroom

Scenarios and Roles

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• Urbanization and Immigration

• German, Irish Immigrants-Push and

Pull Factors

• African American Migration to

North and West

• Move from Rural to City Life in

America

• MN History

• Cities of MN

• Government, Symbols, Flag and

Politics in MN

• Current Events

• Comprehend the variety of

technological advances during this

time period and their impact on jobs,

communication and growth of cities

• Identify factors leading to large new

waves of European immigrants

moving to the US during the mid-

1800s

• Understand the pull of opportunity

for African Americans outside the

slave states of the Southern US

• Explore the shift from farms to life

in cities

• Identify major cities in MN and their

significance within the state

• Understand the unique political

figures in MN history






re-takes online)

• MN Cities Mini-Projects

• Industry and Immigrants Change

American Cities Historical

Perspectives Activity

Curriculum Map

CONCEPT SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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• Slavery in US History

• Slave Life and Culture

• Plantations, Field Slaves, House

Slaves, Overseer

• Regional Differences between North

and South

• Industry vs Agriculture

• Tariffs

• Abolition Movement

• Road to Disunion

• Nullification Crisis in 1830’s

• Nation Divided over Slavery and

New States entering the Union

• Missouri Compromise and

Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• MN History: Timber, Wheat and

Tourism

• Lumber, Mining, Trade and

Commerce in MN

• Current Events

• Acknowledge and understand the

difficult reality of slavery in the

development of the southern US

economy and way of life

• Identify the different roles of slaves

on plantations and in the economy of

cotton production

• Understand the growing differences

between the north and south related

to slavery, economies and attitudes

• Analyze key issues like tariffs,

slavery and state’s rights in the

growing tension between the north

and south

• Relate key figures in the Abolition

Movement and their impact on

attitudes and policy

• Identify compromises that kept

peace between the north and south

through the 1850s

• Understand the major economic

forces in the state of MN

• Relate the natural resources of MN

to the types of industry and jobs

within the state






re-takes online)

• Slave Life and Culture D.E. videos

and discussions

• Slavery Debate-Free States vs.

Slave States

• A Nation Divided Timeline Inquiry

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• Dred Scott Case

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates

• John Brown Uprising

• Election of 1860 & Secession

• Civil War

• Economic Strengths of South and

North

• Soldiers and Weapons

• Strategies & Leadership of North

and South

• Understand the role of the Dred

Scott case in pushing the north and

south to the brink of war

• Analyze the election of Abraham

Lincoln as the tipping point that

leads to the secession of southern

states and the creation of the

Confederate States of America

• Explore the eventual declaration of

war after the Battle of Ft. Sumter

• Comprehend Lincoln’s primary goal






re-takes online)

• Underground Railroad Reading

Passage Questions and Discussion

• Civil War D.E. videos and

discussions about course of way

and battles

• Course of War

• Battles: Ft. Sumter, Bull Run,

Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Siege

of Vicksburg

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Current Events

of Union of states

• Identify the major advantages and

disadvantages of the Union and

Confederate states, and their

approaches and strategies

• Explore the course of war and

significant battles and turning points

in the Civil War

• Understand key political moves of

Lincoln during the war, including

the Emancipation Proclamation and

the Gettysburg Address and their

impacts on attitudes and moral

support for the Union

• Course of War Timeline Map

Investigation

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• Sherman’s March to the Sea and

Total War

• Surrender at Appomattox

Courthouse

• Assassination of Lincoln

• End of the Civil War

• Reconstruction & Rebuilding the

South

• 13, 14 & 15th

Amendments

• Slavery abolished

• Rights extended to all men

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Impeachment of Johnson

• Black Codes, KKK and

Discrimination in the South

• Freedman’s Bureau

• Sharecropping in the South

• Current Events

• Explore the final Union advances

and implementation of Anaconda

Plan in defeating the Confederate

armies


Lincoln’s assassination and the slow

progress of Reconstruction under

Johnson’s leadership

• Analyze the huge significance of the

13, 14 and 15th

Amendments in

abolishing slavery and moving

America toward equality and rights

for all citizens

• Understand discrimination and its

lasting impacts within the social

dynamics of our country

• Explore the policies that continued

to make life in the south difficult for

now free African Americans






re-takes online)

• Amendments Organizer and Mini-

Written Assessment on 13, 14 &

15th

Amendments

• Reconstruction Timeline Inquiry

Activity

• Civil War & Reconstruction Unit

Test

• Curriculum Map-History 8th

Grade CONCEPT SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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• Slavery in US History

• Slave Life and Culture

• Plantations, Field Slaves, House

Slaves, Overseer

• Regional Differences between North

and South

• Industry vs Agriculture

• Tariffs

• Abolition Movement

• Road to Disunion

• Nullification Crisis in 1830’s

• Nation Divided over Slavery and

New States entering the Union

• Missouri Compromise and

Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• Current Events

• Acknowledge and understand the

difficult reality of slavery in the

development of the southern US

economy and way of life

• Identify the different roles of slaves

on plantations and in the economy of

cotton production

• Understand the growing differences

between the north and south related

to slavery, economies and attitudes

• Relate key figures in the Abolition

Movement and their impact on

attitudes and policy

• Analyze key issues like tariffs,

slavery and state’s rights in the

growing tension between the north

and south

• Identify compromises that kept

peace between the north and south

through the 1850s

• Beginning of Year 8th

Grade

History Pre-Test






re-takes online)

• Data Analysis “Same Nation,

Different Worlds”

• Historical Perspective “A Nation

Divided” activity

• Compromise of 1850 Reading

Passage & Questions

O

C

T

O

B

E

R

• Dred Scott Case

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates

• Election of 1860 & Secession

• Civil War

• Economic Strengths of South and

North

• Soldiers and Weapons

• Strategies & Leadership of North

and South

• Course of War

• Battles: Ft. Sumter, Bull Run,

Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Siege

of Vicksburg

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Understand the role of the Dred

Scott case in pushing the north and

south to the brink of war

• Analyze the election of Abraham

Lincoln as the tipping point that

leads to the secession of southern

states and the creation of the

Confederate States of America

• Explore the eventual declaration of

war after the Battle of Ft. Sumter

• Comprehend Lincoln’s primary goal

of Union of states

• Identify the major advantages and

disadvantages of the Union and






re-takes online)

• Voting/Election Project

• “The Course of War” Timeline

Map Activity

• Reconstruction Investigation

Activity

• Amendment Mini-Assessment and

review of 13, 14 and 15th

Amendments

• Gettysburg Address

• Sherman’s March to the Sea and

Total War

• Surrender at Appomattox

Courthouse

• Assassination of Lincoln

• End of the Civil War

• Reconstruction & Rebuilding the

South

• 13, 14 & 15th

Amendments

• Slavery abolished

• Rights extended to all men

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Impeachment of Johnson

• Black Codes, KKK and

Discrimination in the South

• Freedman’s Bureau

• Sharecropping in the South

• Current Events

Confederate states, and their

approaches and strategies

• Explore the course of war and

significant battles and turning points

in the Civil War

• Understand key political moves of

Lincoln during the war, including

the Emancipation Proclamation and

the Gettysburg Address and their

impacts on attitudes and moral

support for the Union

• Explore the final Union advances

and implementation of Anaconda

Plan in defeating the Confederate

armies


Lincoln’s assassination and the slow

progress of Reconstruction under

Johnson’s leadership

• Analyze the huge significance of the

13, 14 and 15th

Amendments in

abolishing slavery and moving

America toward equality and rights

for all citizens

• Understand discrimination and its

lasting impacts within the social

dynamics of our country

• Explore the policies that continued

to make life in the south difficult for

now free African Americans

N

O

V

E

M

B

• Urbanization in post Industrial Age

• Pollution & Environment during

Urbanization

• Second Westward Expansion after

Civil War

• Homesteading

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Native American Experience 1860-

• Identify factors after Civil War that

continued to lead to increased

growth of cities

• Explore the impacts of urbanization

on the environment

• Understand the next wave of

westward expansion and

opportunities for pioneers moving






re-takes online)

• Voting & Election Project

• Unit Test on Civil War and Slavery

E

R

1890

• Minorities & Immigrants in the

West

• Current Events

west after the Civil War

• Discover the continued difficult

relations between Native Americans

and European Americans during the

late 1800s due to policies of

displacement

• Understand the roles of other

minorities and growing population

of immigrants from Asia in the

western states


D

E

C

E

M

B

E

R

• Immigration after Civil War

• Ethnic Enclaves

• Workplace Safety

• Ethnic & Racial Discrimination

• Ellis Island

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Angel Island

• Citizenship in US

• Current Events

• Explore the push and pull factors

leading to the huge wave of

immigrants from Europe following

the Civil War

• Understand the development of

ethnic enclaves in major US cities

• Analyze the US immigration stations

roles in processing millions of

immigrants into the US in the late

1800s and early 1900s

• Understand the discrimination faced

by each group of immigrants

moving into the US and how groups

assimilated






re-takes online)

• Westward Expansion Investigation

Questions

• Immigration Timeline Map Activity

J

A

N

U

A

R

Y

• Imperialism

• Spanish American War

• Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

• Cuba, Philippines, Hawaii and

Imperialism

• Panama Canal

• Growing Nationalism in Europe

• Colonization & Dividing African

• Discover the dominant policy of

Imperialism that led to

fragmentation of territories around

the world and on the continent of

Africa

• Relate the US participation in

Imperialism at the beginning of the

1900s

• Understand the tension between






re-takes online)

• Primary Source Investigation

Questions on Monroe Doctrine

• Imperialism and Spanish American

Countries

• Alliances in Europe

• Lead up to World War I

• World War I

• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

• Central Powers & Allied Powers

• US Neutrality

• Current Events

Spain and the US in territories of

Cuba, the Philippines and Central

America

• Explore the US expansion into lands

outside the continental United States

• Understand growing tensions

between competing European

countries

• Explore the development of

European alliances during this

period of Imperialism

• Relate the events leading up to

World War I and the initial policy of

US neutrality

War Timeline Inquiry

F

E

B

R

U

A

R

Y

• US Involvement & Campaign with

Allies

• Trench Warfare

• Weapons, New Technology and

Chemical Weapons in WWI

• Allied Victory and Shifts in

European Borders

• Wilson and League of Nations

• Post War Economy in Europe vs.

US becoming world leader

• Communism & Red Scare

• Factors Leading to Great Depression

• Over-supply of Grain in US

• Lending & Credit

• Distribution of Wealth & False

Prosperity

• Stock Market and Speculation

• Black Tuesday

• Onset of Great Depression

• Government Response

• Bank Failures

• Collapse of Economy &

Unemployment

• Understand the eventual

involvement of the US in World

War I and its allies

• Explore fighting techniques, new

technologies and difficulties of

Trench Warfare in WWI

• Understand the significance of US

involvement and the eventual

victory of allied forces

• Analyze the impacts of WWI on

European borders and Germany’s

downfall

• Comprehend the emergence of a

strong economy in the US following

the war and the opportunity to

supply Europe with resources

• Understand complex economic

factors that lead to a false prosperity

in the US in the 1920s

• Explore the disproportionate

distribution of wealth and growing

credit crisis in the late 1920s

• Understand the significance of Black

Tuesday, speculation and over






re-takes online)

• World War I Unit Test

• Great Depression Factors and

Solutions Socratic Seminar

•

reaction to market forces

• Relate the domino effect of bank

failures, job loss, unemployment and

collapse of economy in leading to

the Great Depression


M

A

R

C

H

• FDR & the New Deal

• Back to Work Programs

• WW II as Final Push to bring US out

of Great Depression

• Lead-up Factors to World War II

• Great Depression in

Europe/Germany

• Rise of Fascism & Aryanism

• Mussolini, Hitler and Japan

Aggression

• Appeasement Policy

• Invasion of Poland & Declaration of

War bet. Axis & Allies

• Current Events

• Understand the election of FDR and

the government response to the

Great Depression

• Explore the vast variety of programs

and efforts by FDR to lead the US

out of the Great Depression

• Relate the significance of build up

for World War II as the factor that

eventually brings the US out of the

Great Depression

• Understand how the reality of the

Great Depression in Europe and

worldwide led to the rise of fascist

leaders and desperate nations

looking to regain control and power

• Analyze the roles of Hitler,

Mussolini and Japan aggression in

leading to WWII

• Understand the ineffective League

of Nations’ role in allowing

Germany’s invasion and takeovers

of European territories

• Discover the final actions of

Germany that lead to declaration of

war between the Axis and Allied

powers






re-takes online)

• Isolation to War Timeline Map

Inquiry

• “Surviving D-Day” Documentary

with writing prompt questions

A

P

• German Dominance in early years of

War

• US Isolation & Neutrality

• Battle of Britain

• Explore the dominance of Germany

and rapid expansion of Japan in the

Pacific during the early years of

WWII





R

I

L

• Attack on Pearl Harbor and US

Entry into War

• European Theater

• US Forces in N. Africa and Italy

• D-Day and Entry into France

• Offensive into Germany

• Battle of the Bulge

• V-E Day & Surrender of Germany

• Concentration Camps & Liberation

• Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

• Current Events

• Understand the US policy of

neutrality until the attack on Pearl

Harbor

• Explore the US buildup of troops,

supplies, ships and airplanes in

preparation for fighting

• Identify the major US contributions

to Allied fighting in North Africa,

Italy and mainland Europe

• Understand the significance of D-

Day at Normandy and the Allied re-

taking of France and push back of

German forces

• Analyze the strategy of Allied forces

in the eventual defeat of Germany

• Critically analyze the reality of the

Nazi Holocaust and US and

International responses after World

War II


re-takes online)

• Holocaust Shoah Foundation Video

series discussion and writing

prompts

M

A

Y

• War in the Pacific Theater

• Japanese Expansionism

• War at Sea-Ships and Planes

• Battle for Philippines, Guam,

Okinawa, Wake Island, Iwo Jima

• Doolittle Raid

• Island Hopping

• Bombing Raids into Japan

• Nuclear Weapons

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Surrender of Japan

• End of WWII

• New Superpowers Emerge-US &

Soviet Union

• Potsdam and Peace Conferences

• United Nations

• Establishment of Israel

• Cold War?

• Explore the significant battles of the

Pacific Theater in WWII

• Understand the US and Allied

approach to defeating Japan in the

Pacific

• Understand key turning points and

Allied victories in the Pacific

• Explore the unfortunate final push

for US victory and Japanese

surrender through the use of nuclear

bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Understand the final effects of WWI

and the peace process at its

conclusion

• Analyze the development of the

United Nations

• Explore the dynamics of post-war

politics between the US and the

Soviet Union






re-takes online)

• Use of Nuclear Weapons Structured

Academic Controversy

• World War II Documentary (Nat.

Geo) questions and review

• World War II Unit Test

• End of Year History Post-Test

Documents

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